It's a wonderful telemarketer
I should tell the caller the truth, they have the wrong number. But I’m pretty sure the person calling me at seven in the morning is a telemarketer, and when it comes to telemarketers, I just can’t help myself.
It’s early, and I haven’t had my coffee yet, so it takes me a beat to place the name I gave the telemarketer. While she launches into a spiel about why I need to buy identity theft insurance, I do some quick Googling on my phone. Turns out George Bailey was the main character in the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. I was a teenager the last time I watched that movie, and I don’t remember much about the film except that it airs on TV every Christmas, and it stars Jimmy Stewart. I’ll have to wing it.
“Frankly, I don’t understand either. When I went to bed last night, I was Michael Estrin. But this morning I’m George Bailey, whoever he is.”
“But you work in the identity theft industry. I would’ve thought this kind of stuff happens all the time. Isn’t that how identity theft works?”
